Syllabus

Inside Reporting

Wordpress blog and website tutorials 

Poynter: News University - Wordpress for beginners 

Learn Wordpress (2) - Overview of Admin Panel

Learn Wordpress (4)  - Pages and Widgets

Learn Wordpress (5) - Adding Content with Posts

Learn Wordpress (6) How to add media in posts

Learn Wordpress - NextGen Gallery of Photos - Review 

Learn Wordpress - How to create a NextGen Gallery 

Learn Wordpress - NextGen Gallery  

Learn Wordpress - Creating Video Galleries 

Adobe InDesign CS2 Tutorials

Basics of InDesign 1 Creating a working copy 

Basics of InDesign 2 Zooming and Changing Views

Basics of InDesign 3 Navigating a Document 

Basics of InDesign 4 Formatting a Document

Basics of InDesign 5 Formatting Paragraphs

Basics of InDesign 6 Dropcaps

Basics of InDesign 1 - Newspaper

Basics of InDesign 2 - exploring a workflow   

InDesign Textwrap & Picture Boxes 

How to wrap text around a graphic

Remove a picture background in 5 seconds 

Photography

photography tutorial for beginners - aperture, shutter speed, ISO 

A Simple Approach to Great Captions (video lesson)

Canon

Canon EOS Digital Rebel Review 

Nikon

Nikon D40 SLR Review 

Poynter News University

First Amendment for the High School Journalist 

Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making 

News Sense:  The Building Blocks of News 

The Interview

The Lead Lab 

Cleaning Your Copy:  Grammar, Style and More 

Lousy Listeners:  How to Avoid  Being One 

Introduction to Reporting: Beat Basics 

On the Beat: Covering Education 

Lessons from the Contests: Still Photography and Websites 

The Be a Reporter Game 

The Be an Editor Game 

The Writer's Workbench:  50 Tools You Can Use 

AP Style ONLINE QUIZZES & EXERCISES

AP Style Quizzes  

AP Style Guide

AP Style Online QUIZ 1 

Gerald Grow's Newsroom 101 

Edit Teach online tools & QUIZZES 

Articles - required critiques / "write-likes" 

Reading Article 1 - Feature - Hearst Journalism Award

Reading Article 2 - Feature - Pulitzer Prize  "Fatal Distraction" 

Reading Article 3 - Feature - Pulitzer Prize "Enrique's Journey Chapter 1"

Reading Article 4 - Editorial writing - Pulitzer Prize "Bleak House"

Reading Article 5 - Editorial Writing - 'Shush' is not open government

Reading Article 6 - Opinion - Hearst Journalism Award 

Reading Article 7 - Pulitzer - News reporting - (news writing, WED, photo) 

Reading Article 8 - Hearst Award - News writing 

Reading Article 9 - Hearst award - Sports Writing 

Reading Article 10 - Hearst award - Sports Writing 

Important Forms and Documents (printable and links)

Google Docs Article Sharing 

Dropbox directions 

Portfolio ASSIGNMENTS Menu (POINTS Cover Sheet)

Portfolio PUBLICATION Menu (PERCENTAGE Sheet) 

Article Cover Sheet

Article Rubric

Peer Evaluation

Editor's Marks H/O

Podcast Rubric

Video Rubric

AD RATE SHEET 

Student Press Law Activity: Morse, et. al. v. Frederick